Love me little, love me long, / Is the burden of my song; / Love that is too hot and strong / Burneth soon to waste; / Still I would not have thee cold, / Not too backward or too bold; / Love that lasteth till tis old / Fadeth not in haste. Old Ballad.

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. Jean Paul.

Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up . In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. Carlyle.

Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity. Goldsmith.

Lowliness is young ambitions ladder, / Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; / But when he once attains the upmost round, / He then unto the ladder turns his back, / Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend. Julius Cæsar, ii. 1.

Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducereIt argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits. Cicero.

Magno de flumine mallem / Quam ex hoc fonticulo tantundem sumereI had rather take my glass of water from a great river like this than from this little fountain. Horace, in reproof of those who lay by large stores and never use them.

Magnum hoc ego duco / Quod placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestumI account it a great honour that I have pleased a man like you, who know so well to discriminate between the base and the honourable. Horace.

Major famæ sitis est quam / Virtutis; quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? Juvenal.

Major privato visus, dum privatus fuit, et omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperassetHe was regarded as greater than a private individual so long as he remained one, and, by the consent of all, would have been deemed worthy to rule had he never ruled. Tacitus, of the Emperor Galba.